The Jardin Royal of Toulouse !

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Well if you walk, then gardens are a must, and they are all beautiful! Often overlook by visitors because they want to see monuments but here are a wonderful part of any city and gorgeous statues fountains etc as well. A great way to rest amongst this beauty after a long city walk.  Toulouse has some that I like and will tell you here and the next posts. Let me tell you a bit on the Jardin Royal of Toulouse ! Hope  you enjoy the post as I.

The Jardin Royal is an English public garden located in the Busca-Montplaisir district, southeast of the hypercenter of Toulouse. Created by Louis de Mondran in 1754, the Jardin Royal or Royal Garden was the first public garden in the city. Like the Grand-Rond, it was laid out as an English garden between 1861 and 1863. It covers an area of about 1.7 hectares.

First named the public garden of Toulouse, it took the name of Royal Garden with the creation of the Grand-Rond garden. Obviously, during the French revolution, the garden changed its name. During the 19C, following the political orientations of the leaders of Toulouse, the park oscillated between Public and Royal. It was in 1886 that it definitively took the name of the Royal Garden.

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Several statues adorn the garden, paying particular tribute to Déodat de Séverac, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the pioneers of the Aéropostale. The Royal Garden is connected to the Grand-Rond garden by a footbridge passing over the allées Jules Guedes and is decorated with numerous statues. There are tree species such as ginkgo biloba, hackberry, Lebanon cedars, a tulip tree, an Osage orange tree and magnolias.

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It is a very quiet place, conducive to meditative walks, to poetic reverie. Enter the garden through the west gate, between a hackberry from Provence and a ginkgo biloba. In the alley on the left, before arriving in front of the great cedars of Lebanon, there is a persimmon of Virginia with a blackish trunk deeply cracked. Its orange-yellow fruits, placed on a chalice with four sepals arranged in a cross, are edible after the first frosts, like meddlers. Beside it there is an Osage orange tree with its leaves grouped in small rosettes and twigs armed with thorns. Opposite, just after the group of cedars, grow a large magnolia and a ginkgo biloba in front of a huge hackberry tree. Very picturesque, it offers a romantic setting for lovers with very nice urban furniture in wrought iron. Children have fun with the little duck pond! Indeed can say romantic place.

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The Toulouse tourist office on the royal garden:  Tourist office of Toulouse on the Royal Garden

City of Toulouse on its gardens in French

There you go another wonderful place small but quant and very nicely maintained like royalty… Fun for the whole family and it has sort of a theme on aviation as you are in Toulouse,you know…see my posts on that. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Jardin Royal of Toulouse ! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

2 thoughts on “The Jardin Royal of Toulouse !”

  1. I love to visit monuments, but gardens are even better, especially after the long winter months, when buds begin to appear. The Royal Gardens of Toulouse look lovely and, hopefully, we’ll visit one day. 👍

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